{"id":137,"date":"2020-01-17T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/teachingoceanscience\/?p=137"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T14:26:06","slug":"12-students-four-rotating-tables-three-experiments-and-one-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/teachingoceanscience\/2020\/01\/17\/12-students-four-rotating-tables-three-experiments-and-one-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"12 students, four rotating tables, three experiments and one dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday we had four rotating in operation simultaneously, running three different experiments. It\u2019s pretty awesome to be able to bridge spin-up times by just observing what the teams on the neighboring tables are up to, also it\u2019s nice to get a variety of experiments all happening at the same time. Very entertaining and educational indeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experiment that everybody is gathering around in the picture above is our favourite experiment: a slowly rotating tank with cooling in the middle that shows a nice\u00a02D circulation instead of an overturning as we would expect in a non-rotating system<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A second group was doing an Ekman spiral experiment similar to this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you are interested in observing the bottom boundary layer of a tank, it might look a bit weird to people who don’t know what you are up to…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the other two experiments were the\u00a0planetary Rossby wave<\/a> experiments that I’ve written about so much before that it doesn’t really matter that I didn’t take any pictures this time round — you can find plenty over on my blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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